2012-07-30-Upcoming important updates for ATI/AMD GPU owners.

The next week we're going to roll out an
important X.Org Server update. We are updating this
vital component of the distro to version 1.12.2.
In order to do so, we are now forced to upgrade
the AMD Catalyst Drivers to version 12.6. This version
also discontinues the support for Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000.
If you own one of these cards, you better switch to the
OpenSource drivers NOW. More info about this can be found on the forum:
X-Server fails to start

2012-06-12-LibreOffice freezes in Sabayon 9.

we just discovered that in the default Sabayon 9
ISO images, LibreOffice is freezing for a few minutes
when starting a new document. The fix to this bug is easy,
just remove app-officeext/languagetool using either Rigo
or Equo.

2012-05-21-portage-config-protect-if-modified.

Beginning with sys-apps/portage-2.1.10.61, FEATURES=config-protect-if-modified
is enabled by default. This causes the CONFIG_PROTECT behavior to be skipped
for files that have not been modified since they were installed.

If you would like to disable this behavior by default, then set
FEATURES="-config-protect-if-modified" in make.conf. See the make.conf(5) man
page for more information about this feature.

udev-181 is being unmasked on 2012-03-19.

This news item is to inform you that once you upgrade to a version of
udev >=181, if you have /usr on a separate partition, you must boot your
system with an initramfs which pre-mounts /usr.

An initramfs which does this is created by
>=sys-kernel/genkernel-3.4.25.1 or
>=sys-kernel/dracut-017-r1. If you do not want to use these tools, be
sure any initramfs you create pre-mounts /usr.